Just thought I’d post a couple pix I took of last night’s total lunar eclipse. They were taken with a Nikon D200 through a Questar reflecting telescope. Clouds covered the moon until right after totality so I missed the first part. I had to crank up the gain on the camera so some of the pictures are very grainy, but they still came out okay. The blurry edges on some of them were caused by the moon moving during the exposure.

Goodnight Moon

 

 

We like the moon!

But not as much as cheese!

...and also zeppelins!

 

This is the picture I got once the earth decided to quit casting its giant shadow on the moon. It was so bright by this point I was able to use some decent ISO and shutter speed settings and it came out pretty sharp:

It's back!

 

Here’s a nice little song about the moon you can listen to while you are surfing the Interweb for eclipse pictures:

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